Welcome to my new blog: 40K Newb. I'm Sam Guss, owner of Samuel Guss Photography and the blogs: Exploring Uncertainty and Classical Newb. The focus of this blog will be adventures, mishaps, thoughts and growth as a Warhammer 40K player.
My first tournament is coming up next weekend. I'll be borrowing my brother-in-laws Space Marines for it and in May I have my own SM army that I am purchasing from a fellow gamer. Warhammer 40K is still very new to me. I've played a grand total of 8 games over the last 5 months, 6 of them Ultramarines and 2 of them Blood Angels. My strategy is to go into Space Marines, Blood Angels and Grey Knights. I'm considering Space Wolves in the future.
The reason I chose Space marines and the various chapters such as Blood Angels, is threefold. First of all, in some cases I will be able to get double duty out of some of my models, since they use some of the same basic models. Second of all, I like the back story of Space Marines, which leads into my third reason: I'm a huge Warhammer 40K Space Opera novel fan - most notably the Space Marines.
I'm 41 years old as of this posting, married with 3 teenagers, 1 of which lives with me; 3 dogs, 2 cats, a car loan and a mortgage payment. I run my own wedding photography business - Samuel Guss Photography where I also specialize in portrait photography and some fine art photography. I work full time in outside sales as well - credit processing and I'm in college earning my Bachelor of Fine Arts degree (majoring in Photography and Graphic Design). In addition to this, I'm a board member of the Unitarian Universialist Church of Birmingham and an avid writer and gamer. Gaming is my hobby and in all of it's forms. I play Magic the Gathering, Warhammer 40K, MMO's (like World of Warcraft), computer pc and Xbox 360 video games, as well as board and other strategy games.
So far, I find myself intrigued and hyped up about Warhammer 40K, thus the purpose of this blog. I welcome you to follow along my journey, give me your 2 cents and together let's have fun with our chosen hobby. Until next time!
